Dakota Quotes

• When I did 'The Social Network,' David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  Dakota Johnson

  Character, Thinking, Social Network

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• Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

  Howard Dean

  New York, Oklahoma, Texas

  Remarks after Iowa caucuses, Des Moines, Iowa, 19 Jan. 2004. The "Yeah" at the end of these comments was perceived as a scream and contributed substantially to the decline of his presidential candidacy.

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• Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

  Gary Hamel

  Change, Horse, Together

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• Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

  John Hoeven

  Moving, Challenges, North Dakota

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• You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Country, Teacher

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• In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

  Jane Brody

  Cancer, Dark, Illinois

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• College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.

  Diana Palmer

  Mother, Father, Nursing

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• Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track to do so in a runoff next month in Louisiana. At the same time, voters kept Republicans in GOP seats in heavily contested races in Georgia, Kansas, and Kentucky. That is at least ten, and as many as a dozen, tough races, without a single Republican seat changing hands. Tuesday's voting was a wave alright - a very anti-Democratic wave.

  Byron York

  Alaska, Kansas, Race

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• Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.

  Kent Conrad

  Jobs, Wind, Dollars

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• It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.

  Kent Conrad

  Children, Mean, Vegetables

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• The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.

  Dexter Filkins

  Ignorance, Army, Years

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• I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Jobs, Support, Trying

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• That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

  Ezra Pound

  Thinking, Apathy, Constitution

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• Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

  Garrison Keillor

  Jesus, Earth, Minnesota

  "When I’m 64". www.salon.com. August 09, 2006.

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• We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.

  Heidi Heitkamp

  Government, Quality, Care

  "Heitkamp on health care: past vs. present" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. March 23, 2012.

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• Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.

  Richard Roeper

  Children, Dad, Heart

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• I met my wife in South Dakota.

  George McGovern

  Wife, South Dakota, Mets

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• Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.

  John Thune

  Jobs, War, Oil

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• It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Growing Up, Energy, Different

  "Discovery: Kaya Scodelario" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.

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• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Guitar, Paris

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• South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  Laura Ingraham

  Government, States, South Dakota

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• I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Moving, Believe, Bills

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• I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Congress, South Dakota, Serving

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• I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Country, Drinking, Water

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